Citation — to study Ivan Hernandez and Jesse Lee Preston, Disfluency disrupts the confirmation bias, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 49(1): 178-182 (January 2013) Citation — to press release Diana Yates, Difficult-to-read font reduces political polarity, study finds, University of Illinois (02 November 2012) Background — what is confirmation bias? From the abstract: One difficulty [...]
Categories: Culture,Education,Psychology,Science
Tagged: analytic processing, analytical brain, comprehensive consideration, confirmation bias, Daniel Kahneman, Diana Yates, difficult-to-read font, disfluency, disfluent format, font, Ivan Hernandez, Jesse Lee Preston, political ideology, political polarization, System 1, System 2, Thinking Fast and Slow
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- 3 November 2012 – 17:19
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Citation © 2012 Vasyl Palchykov, Kimmo Kaski, Janos Kertész, Albert-László Barabási, and Robin I. M. Dunbar, Sex differences in intimate relationships, Science Reports [at Nature.com] 2(370), doi:10.1038/srep00370 (19 April 2012) (at abstract) Summary of this study’s findings Aging women appear to alter their youthful, mate-centered, hierarchy of close relationships to a subsequent one that exhibits [...]
Categories: Culture,Psychology
Tagged: aging women, Albert-László Barabási, allegiances, best, daughters, evolutionary fitness, evolutionary theory, gender differences, gender-biases, genders, intimate relationships, Janos Kertész, Kimmo Kaski, matrilineal, mobile phone use, offspring, patrilineal, Robin I. M. Dunbar, second best, sex differences, third best, Vasyl Palchykov
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- 2 May 2012 – 13:35
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A maybe not so rigorous survey of Canadian EMS workers A Canadian, in-conference, survey of 1,381 Ontario and Nova Scotia emergency service workers (apparently emergency medical technicians and paramedics, 70 percent of whom were male and had 10-years experience) discovered that: 67 percent had been verbally abused, 41 percent had been subjected to intimidation, 26 [...]
Categories: Culture,Medicine
Tagged: Blair L. Bigham, bystanders, Canadian, Catherine B. Custalow, Christian Martin-Gill, emergency services, EMS, EMS Provider and Patient Safety during Response and Transport Proceedings of an Ambulance Safety Conference, Eric Hawkins, Jane H. Brice, Jonathan R. Studne, Laurie J. Morrison, Nova Scotia, Ontario, paramedics, physical abuse, sexual assault, verbal abuse
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- 29 December 2011 – 13:01
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- By BrainiYak
Sad news for women, who deserve better based on their actual performances Men’s “honest” overconfidence gets them promoted to leadership over similarly competent women: Reuben and his coresearchers . . . asked MBA students to complete a set of math problems on which both men and women perform about the same. One year later, the [...]
Categories: Culture,Psychology
Tagged: blowhard, confidence, corporate world, Ernesto Reuben, exaggeration, female, leadership, Luigi Zingales, male, over-confidence, Paola Sapienza, Pedro Rey-Biel, performance, promotion
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- 29 November 2011 – 12:45
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- By BrainiYak
Your “barbarian” was my desert sophisticate The University of Leicester (England) reported that: “Satellite imagery has given us the ability to cover a large region. The evidence suggests that the climate has not changed over the years and we can see that this inhospitable landscape with zero rainfall was once very densely built up and cultivated. [...]
Categories: Culture,Science
Tagged: castles, desert, farms, fortified, Garamantes, Greek, Leicester, Libya, Martin Sterry, mud-brick, rainfall, Roman, satellite, villages
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- 7 November 2011 – 12:54
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- By BrainiYak
Saying one thing and doing another Science Daily reported on a soon-to-be published research by Jack Goncalo, Shimul Melwani, and Jennifer Mueller: “How is it that people say they want creativity but in reality often reject it?” said Jack Goncalo . . . co-author of research to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal [...]
Categories: Culture,Psychology
Tagged: creativity, Jack Goncalo, Jennifer Mueller, novelty, practical, Shimul Melwani, tried and true, U Penn, University of Pennsylvania, Why We Crave Creativity but Reject Creative Ideas
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- 6 September 2011 – 08:16
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- By BrainiYak
That was quick Since April 1, Amazon has sold 105 Kindle books for every 100 print books sold. These numbers include books that have no Kindle edition. Also, for all of 2011 so far, Amazon has had the fastest year-over-year growth rate for its books business due to the overwhelming Kindle sales and steady print [...]
Categories: Culture
Tagged: Kindle Books Outsell Print Books on Amazon, military, move, print books, Tiffany Kaiser
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- 20 May 2011 – 08:28
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- By BrainiYak
Bolivian mountain poverty necessitates physical risks and difficult family lives Riding the 400 meter long cables the farmers use to cross the river canyon to get to their coca fields are challenging enough. The bus ride they have take to market on a narrow and precipitous road is scarier still. Al Jazeera did an outstanding [...]
Categories: Culture,Economy
Tagged: Al Jazeera English, Bolivia, coca, farmer, Risking it all The flying men of Yungas valley
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- 17 May 2011 – 23:16
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- By BrainiYak
Is our barbarians’ English better suited to efficient, emergency communication? Read what Minae Mizumura said in regard to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: One unlikely side-effect of the Japanese crisis has been a new critique of our use of honorifics. One tends to associate honorifics with social hierarchy, but they play another critical role: they [...]
Categories: Culture,Environment
Tagged: Brownie, Fukushima Daiichi, honorific, insider, Japan How to talk to a tragedy, language, Minae Mizumura, nuclear disaster, outsider, TEPCO, Yukio Edano
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- 18 April 2011 – 11:09
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- By BrainiYak
Look at Tom Tomorrow’s “Language Is a Virus” cartoon http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/11/965457/-Language-is-a-Virus?detail=hide
Categories: Culture
Tagged: cartoon, elderly, extreme, greed, Language Is a Virus, lunatic, Republican, Right Wing, Tom Tomorrow
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- 15 April 2011 – 08:32
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- By BrainiYak